Lesson 2823

(Lesson 2823)(09-16-19) Romans 8:18-23
    “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

    In today’s quote, Paul, while referring to the mortal body of a saved person as “the creature”, relates that the trials that are suffered by the saved here on earth, while they inhabit their mortal bodies, are nothing to compare to the glory that the saved will experience at the rapture when they receive their glorified bodies. We are doomed to suffer for the sins of our mortal bodies, here on earth, until such a time as our mortal bodies have also been redeemed from sin.~